Thursday, May 5, 2005, 1:16:05 PM, you wrote:

RH> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 04:57:48PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>> The savings of creating static libraries would be small if we
>> refrained from building non-PIC object files.

RH> But still largely useless.  Who in their right mind is going to
RH> use an 83MB static library when a shared library is available.

Everyone on win32 builds libgcj static, and probably wants to keep it
that way if they plan to distribute their apps.

What would be the point of distributing a giant shared library with
every application compiled with gcj, especially when awt/swing only
hook into gtk?

I don't think libgcj.dll will ever be standard on any distribution of
win32, yet the many advantages of compiling java code to fast, native
executables apply on this platform.


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